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جمعہ, اگست 3, 2012

Video! Armed rebels execute pro-Assad captives in Syria

New graphic footage has emerged showing armed men killing their captives in the northwestern Syrian city of Aleppo simply for supporting President Bashar al-Assad.
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The two-minute video, posted on YouTube and reported by the AFP, shows
armed men killing elder members of the Syrian al-Berri tribe.

Amnesty
International has already warned about reports of “summary executions”
in Aleppo, calling them serious violations of international law.

This comes as the Syrian government earlier said that the armed rebel
groups backed and funded by Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Turkey are
committing “horrific crimes” against civilians in the capital, Damascus,
and the city of Aleppo.

In two letters addressed to the
head of the UN Security Council and the UN secretary general, the Syrian
Foreign Ministry said the rebels backed by Saudi Arabia, Qatar and
Turkey are using civilians in Aleppo as human shields, and killing
anyone who does not support their crimes.

Syrian Foreign
Minister Walid al-Muallem also said on July 29, “We believe that all the
anti-Syrian forces have gathered in Aleppo to fight the government… and
they will definitely be defeated.”

Mark Glenn, from the
Crescent and Cross Solidarity Movement, said in a recent interview that
the United States and its allies, as well as the Tel Aviv regime “want
the same kind of instability, chaos, civil war and bloodshed that took
place in Libya to take place in Syria.”

Many people, including large numbers of security forces, have been killed in the turmoil in Syria that began in March 2011.

The
Syrian government says foreign-sponsored ‘outlaws, saboteurs, and armed
terrorists’ are behind the unrest, while the opposition accuses the
security forces of killing the protesters.

The anti-Syria Western
regimes have been calling for the Syrian president to step down, but
Russia and China remain strongly opposed to the Western drive to oust
Assad.

On July 28, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said,
“Our Western partners… together with some of Syria’s neighbors are
essentially encouraging, supporting and directing an armed struggle
against [the Syrian government].”
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